“On the shore” written by Rafael Chirbes “The discovery of a corpse in the Olba reservoir sets the narrative in motion. The protagonist of it, Esteban, has been forced to close the carpentry that he owned, leaving those who worked for him unemployed. ” Extracted from Fnac. See also: http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafael_Chirbes http://www.anagrama-ed.es/titulo/NH_512
“The careless angel” written by Eduardo Mendicutti “In 1965, in the novitiate of a religious congregation, the very young Rafael and Nicolás live the luminous and unpleasant experience of first love. In suffocating circumstances, the two teenagers face everything and everyone who wants to separate them: the mystique of their vocation, the desire to
“Private life” by Josep María de Sagarra “An unpaid bill of exchange, triggering a blackmail with tragic consequences concocted by a nihilistic gigolo, will raise the roofs of the Barcelona high society of the thirties, showing a decadent universe populated by ruined aristocrats , entertaining with tinsel and unpresentable parvenus. Written in 1932, this novel,
“Absolution” by Luis Landero “After an erratic and unsatisfied life, Lino has finally managed to be a happy man. It is a Thursday in May, and a splendid future opens before him. On Sunday he will marry Clara, and today, in anticipation of that happy day, there will be a family meal. Everything therefore invites
“Eduardo Arroyo.Minuta de un testamento” (Memories) The self-portrait of an entire post-war generation, exile, anti-Franco struggle, bohemianism and, finally, freedom, success and glamour. The memoirs of Eduardo Arroyo, an artist in the broad sense and a leading intellectual, have the vocation to be read as "a string of confidences full of stories" and to "leave it
“Días de llamas” by Juan Iturralde “Told in the first person by its protagonist, Tomás Labayen, an investigating judge, sentenced to death during the contest, waits in a Madrid cell for that sentence to take place. The novel argues and covers the tragic history of this character and his family environment following the various lines
“Mariana Pineda” by Federico García Lorca “The author's first drama pays homage to the most popular heroine of his native Andalusia. A young woman from Granada is imprisoned in 1831 for having ordered the embroidery of the flag that will serve as the insignia of a liberal insurrection. She promises her freedom if she rats out her bosses, but when she refuses,
“Los eruditos a la violet” by José Cadalso “Los eruditos a la violet (1772) is a brief and light satire against a type of education that was then prevalent: merely superficial erudition. The content and structure are clearly reflected in the subtitle given by its own author: «Complete course of all sciences, divided into seven
“The time between seams” by María Dueñas “The young dressmaker Sira Quiroga leaves Madrid in the convulsive months prior to the uprising, dragged by unbridled love for a man she barely knows. Together they settle in Tangier, a worldly, exotic and vibrant city where the unthinkable can come true. Even
“Private rooms” by Cristina Peri Rossi “If a stranger landed in one of our big cities and wanted to know how urbanites live and what they feel, this book would give him a subtle and ironic vision of the desires, conflicts and illusions of being human of today.” Extracted from Less than four editions. See also: http://www.cristinaperirossi.es/